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Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

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  • Pulpdiction
    Pulpdiction Posts: 231 Forumite
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    Clouded over at lunchtime turning my great start into an average day - 17.58kwh or 5.02 O's - but between 11.00am and 2.00pm it rarely got above 500w due to cloud - dissapointing
  • Waywardmike
    Waywardmike Posts: 205 Forumite
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    Currently buying 1.2kW an hour to keep the aircon on till bedtime(worth every penny)

    My thoughts exactly... Watched generation drop off but thought "nah, it's staying on, screw the cost"... :)
    4 Kwp System, South Facing, 35 Degree Pitch, 16 x 250W Solarworld Panels, SMA Sunnyboy 3600 Inverter, Installed 02/09/14 in Sunny South Bedford - £5600
    Growatt AC Coupled SPA3000tl and 6.5kWh battery Installed Apr 2022
  • zeupater
    zeupater Posts: 5,390 Forumite
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    tunnel wrote: »
    So glad I have aircon, it's been on all night(slept under the duvet last night) and is still on now keeping the upstairs cool, I will use some of this free leccy!!..lol
    mmmm ... thermal mass & good insulation.... mmmm ... :D

    We're just opening all internal doors and letting the house do it's thing .... upstairs obviously gets warmer so we open a single window in the bedroom at night (if it's cooler outside than in) and let the heat vent, closing it all up the next morning ...

    Temperatures peaking at 30C for a couple of consecutive days really make little difference here, it's below 22C inside at the moment .... what causes us a problem is if the hot period lasts - when the heat is in the thermal mass it's pretty hard to shift ... that's really the only time what our air-con goes on ...

    HTH
    Z
    "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit. " ...... Aristotle
    B)
  • Merlin139
    Merlin139 Posts: 7,259 Forumite
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    Naff day here. 3.92 O's (15.6 kWh)
    3.795 kWp Solar PV System. Capital of the Wolds

  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,133 Forumite
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    4.3 Os with a good burst after the sun came out this evening - us westies do have some advantages but I fear that we weren't generating much when the car was charging (on timer 12-2.30 2.4kw)
    I think....
  • legoman62
    legoman62 Posts: 4,998 Forumite
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    Cooler... and less sunshine here on the E. Coast = 3.75 O's today:)
    16 Sanyo Hit 250s.4kWp SMA 3.8kWp inverter. SW roof. 28° pitch. Minimal shade. Nov 2011 install. Hybrid car. Ripple Kirk Hill. N.E Lincs Coast.
  • Sterlingtimes
    Sterlingtimes Posts: 2,528 Forumite
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    Worse than fellow posters today, half a Hawaii. Dismal.
    I have osteoarthritis in my hands so I speak my messages into a microphone using Dragon. Some people make "typos" but I often make "speakos".
  • tunnel
    tunnel Posts: 2,601 Forumite
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    3 O's today for me. Who cares anyway, i'ma getting smashed cos its me birfday....yaysmiley-eatdrink048.gif
    2 kWp SEbE , 2kWp SSW & 2.5kWp NWbW.....in sunny North Derbyshire17.7kWh Givenergy battery added(for the power hungry kids)
  • Oscargrouch
    Oscargrouch Posts: 4,393 Forumite
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    tunnel wrote: »
    3 O's today for me. Who cares anyway, i'ma getting smashed cos its me birfday....yaysmiley-eatdrink048.gif
    Happy Birfday to you; and again....:bdaycake::bdaycake::bdaycake:..smiley-eatdrink048.gif

    Crap day..3.52 O's.....coffee.gif
    2.5 kWp PV system, SSW facing, 45 Deg Roof. ABB Inverter, Monitor: 'Wattson'.
    Reg. for FIT Nov 2011. "It's not what you generate; it's how you use it that matters". One very clean Vauxhall Diesel Sri, £30.00 Road Tax: B)

    Definition of 'O's = kWh/kWp (kWh = your daily & accurate Generation figure) (kWp = the rated output of your PV Panels).
  • theboylard
    theboylard Posts: 1,211 Forumite
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    tunnel wrote: »
    3 O's today for me. Who cares anyway, i'ma getting smashed cos its me birfday....yaysmiley-eatdrink048.gif

    You kept that quiet, not like you?!!!

    Enjoy the 11 minutes left of your birthday :beer:

    Nearly had ho pi today - 3.13 ho's
    4kWp, SSE, SolarEdge P300 optimisers & SE3500 Inverter, in occasionally sunny Corby, Northants.
    Now with added Sunsynk 5kw hybrid ecco inverter & 15kWh Fogstar batteries. Oh Octopus Energy too.
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